Garment-clasp or hose-supporter.



No. 722,285. PATENTBD MAR. 10, 1903.

. A.- H. COHN.

GARMENT CLASP OR HOSE SUPPORTER. APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 8, 1902.

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UNrTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLPH H. COHN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARM ENT-CLASP OR HOSE-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 722,285, dated March 10, 1903.

Application filed November 8, 1902. $eria1N0. 130,478. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it floaty concern:

Beit known that I, ADOLPH H. (JOHN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Clasps or Hose-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to garment-clasps and hose-supporters; and it consists of certain novel parts and combinations of parts pointed out in the claims concluding this specification.

Figure l is a front view of a garment-clasp or hose-supporter containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

It will be understood that various modifications of my invention'may be employed without departing from its essential spirit and without exceeding the scope of the claims. The form shown and described is given only as an illustration of my invention.

A common form of garment-clasp, such as hose-supporters, consists of a loop which is wider at one part than at the outer end and a button adapted to be inserted within the wider part of the loop and then to be slid down into the narrower end portion along with a layer of the fabric, which is placed between the button and the loop.

My present invention employs a loop and button. Both the button and loop are secured each to a piece of webbing O, which pieces of webbing are united together and attached to a piece of webbing O, or the webbing C may form, as shown in Fig. 2, an integral part of said piece of webbing C. In my invention, as herein shown, the button and the manner of combining it with the loop may be of any usual or desired form. The loop, however, differs from the usual loop in the important feature of being substantially nonmetallic and also preferably of material which has a measure of compressibility greater than that of the usual metal loop. This loop may be of ahomogeneous material of substantially unvarying 1ength-such as rubber, hard or soft, fiber, papier-mach, wood or paper pulp, felt, leather, or other materials which comprise the qualities requisite forsecuring an efficient gripping or clinging engagement with the fabricor it may be of a composite structure consistin g of two or more materials combined. In connection with a loop, such as shown, a

button of any type or material, homogeneous I or covered, may be used; but I prefer to use a button made of non-metallic material-such as those, for example, hereinbefore specified.

With a loop of the kind described the strain upon the fabric will press the button down upon the loop and grip the fabric between the loop and button, and the loop having a superior frictional surface willgrip and hold the fabric, so that it cannot readily free itself.

Having thus described my invention in the forms'at present preferred by me,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patout, is-

1. In a garment-clasp the combination with a loop, the body of which is formed of a nonmetallic material of unvarying length, and a button adapted to cooperate therewith to hold the garment.

2. In a garment-clasp,the combination with a loop, the body of which is formed of a nonmetallic material of unvarying length, and a button also formed of non-metallic material adapted to cooperate therewith to hold the garment.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADOLPH H. COI-IN.

Witnesses:

J. EDGAR BULL, E. N. ROBINSON. 

